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Title: Salt Lake City : where to go and what to see
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Union Pacific Railroad Co
Subjects: Utah Salt Lake Salt Lake City Description Utah Description and travel
Publisher: Omaha, Neb: Union Pacific Railroad, 1910
Contributing Library: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Digitizing Sponsor: Corporation of the Presiding Bishop, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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kind. Geologists trace it back to Lake Bonneville —an inland sea larger than Lake Huron — that oneprimordial day washed over Utah and, ages ago,broke down its mountain barriers and flowed awayto the Pacific, The remnant of that sea, reduced bycenturies of evaporation, now lies dead and desolateout in the desert. Vague accounts of the lake dateback to the sixteenth century; but its real discoveryis credited to Jim Bridger, who first saw it from thesouth of Bear River, in 1824. There is a fascination about the lake that fewcan resist. It is so weird, so gloomy and silent. Ifsolitude has the charms that sages have seen on itsface, here they are intensified. Nothing lives in it;nothing can live in it; but the gulls, that driftedthither from the Pacific perhaps, no one knows when,make their home on its islands and ride on its bosom.T he lake has no outlet; but many streams flow intoit and all of these are fresh. The waters are salt,almost to saturation, and are of opaline green. Ordin-
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SALT LAKE CITY arily its surface is placid, and then it is a looking-glass for the mountains around it; but, when stormscome, the waters rage as they do in mid-ocean andno craft can withstand their fury. The area of the lake is given at twenty-five hun-dred square miles; but the shore lines advance andretreat with the wet and dry cycles of the region.In 1843, John C. Fremont crossed dry-shod to Ante-lope Island, now eight miles from the shore. In1902, the low levels were again reached and thewaters were then more than a mile within theirpresent limits. The lake has eight mountainA SOLID islands, all with springs of fresh SALT LAKE water; and, on the west shore in the Great American Desert, wherethe waves have been swept inland by the winds, asea of solid salt has been formed by centuries ofdeposition. This crystalized sea, 12 miles long by30 miles wide, is said to contain 380,000,000 car-loads of salt. Under the summer sun it is a vastexpanse of scintillating, dazzling white, and them

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